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Posted in Christianity, Faith, Family, God, Honoring, Inspiration, Lent, Love, Prayer, Religion, tagged Bible, Christianity, Devotionals, Exit from sin, Faith, Family, Friendship, Genesis 19:16, God, Harry Edenfield, Inspiration, Jesus, Lent, Linger no longer, Lot, Love, Mercy, new beginnings, Prayer, Religion, Remember me, Spirituality on February 27, 2020| 3 Comments »
Harry Edenfield, a Christian author, offers a thought-provoking daily devotional for this season of Lent.
Today’s verse is from Genesis 19:16: “But Lot lingered. So the angels seized him and his wife and his two daughters by the hand, the Lord being merciful to him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city.”
Edenfield reflects, “Lord God, your servant Lot lingered in Sodom. Sometimes I love my chosen place too much. You urge me to leave my sin spot.
I linger.
I linger even if it may be injurious to my loved ones. Remember me: I, too, need an escort from the magnet of sin.
As we leave together, Holy Spirit, urge me to have no regret about the exit from sin. Urge me not to look back.”
Amen.
Posted in Beach, Faith, God, Honoring, Photography, tagged broken necklace, Geese, Heron, Love, oar, Polo, rip tide, sandpiper, wandering uterus on October 6, 2019| 6 Comments »
Thank You, God, for Your greatest commandment of LovE!
Thank You for humour, for beauty, for drama, for restoration, for peace and for Your steadfastness in the face of brokenness and change.
We love You, Lord….Amen!
Posted in Faith, God, Hope, Inspiration, Photography, Poetry, Prayer, tagged Clouds, Faith, Grace, Hope, Inspiration, Journey, Love, Mercy, musings, stay right where you are! meant to be this way, Sunrise, true friendship in Christ, Wait on August 3, 2019|
God whispers, “Wait!
I’m not done with you yet!”
Greet the sun’s rise
And wait for its set.
“The full day is Mine,”
So sayeth the Lord;
And rest in the night,
Not fearful or bored.
For night, like the winter,
Seeks not to destroy,
Darkness in valleys
Spawns splendor and joy…
Just when you think
You can’t take anymore,
God shows us the shutness
THEN opens the door.
Faith is an exercise
Not to achieve,
But trod as a journey,
Daily gift to receive.
Pause to see beauty
Each step of the way,
And God will rain mercy
And grace on your day.
Where today’s poem was spawned…
Thanks, God, for faith, hope and love, the greatest of which is always love.
May we learn to be gracefully patient and guided by Love, each step of the way.
Lord, have Mercy, and thank You for unconditional love and the wisdom in Waiting.
Posted in Faith, God, Inspiration, Life, Photo A Week, Photography, Postaday, Prayer, Psychology, Travel, Vacation, Weekly Photo Challenge, tagged Another Curve in ouR Road, Columbia River Gorge, Elegant Grace, Fantasy Factor, Fire, Freud, God is Good, Golden Gate Bridge, Hope, Illusions, Joie de Vivre!, Love, Mt Shasta, Online Counseling, Philosophy, Point of Convergence, Trains, Vancouver, Vanishing Point on January 20, 2019| 3 Comments »
A vanishing point is an interesting study, and perhaps not just for points of convergence or disappearing lines.
I recently found some vanishing points in fire, fog and falls…helping the mind fill in what may lie just beyond, where lines, images and elements dissipate and invite imagination to take it from there.
Kind of like vague relationships.
In my line of work doing online therapy, research is showing that the “fantasy factor” helps both client and counselor achieve an optimal working relationship, even though the missing gaps may or may not be accurate. Freud was on to something when he chose to sit behind the couch, just out of the line of vision of the patient.
The brain and God are faithful to give us exactly what we need to get through this thing called Life.
My eyes saw these realities, but my mind filled in the blanks of what it might be like to go just beyond. I forewent captions, for you to enjoy them as you see them.
A recognizable scene, given pause, may rise to unrecognizable dreams. A waterfall seen from beneath, has an unseen origin, where gravity may not be so pronounced. A slumbering volcano is made awake and alive by rumors of gnomes and fairies beneath.
I invite your mind to fill in the blanks – joie de vivre! 💋
Thanks, God, for the fantasies and illusions that give us hope, faith and perseverance.
May we never tire as we approach the vanishing point, always finding that extra burst of energy to see what awaits us around the curve.
Give us courage to face what’s on the other side, just beyond our line of vision, and equip us with confidence to accept Your will as we pursue the point of convergence.
Take us around that distant bend, Lord, and infuse us with elegant grace and poignant wisdom.
Posted in Children, Culture, Disabilities, Faith, Family, God, Hope, Inspiration, Joy, Life, Love, Parenting, Photography, Postaday, Weekly Photo Challenge, tagged Christmas, I Cor. 13, Love, Love in a Box, our Father, Path on December 25, 2016| 10 Comments »
The path to Christmas at our house seemed a lot like the one for which the day itself celebrates.
This year has been a long, hard journey…only to get to the end to find no room at the inn, in many ways.
The year has been a story of disabilities, disasters and way too many losses….but also one of perseverance, sharpening and victories, often disguised as hardships. I am highly confident that 2017 will be a year of rebuilding and grace.
So, there weren’t as many gifts under the tree this year, and many of them would have blended in with the latest Fruit of the Loom commercial….which may sound bleak for American children in this day and age – at least at first glance.
But in our culture of entitlement, I think it was just what the children needed to learn some valuable character lessons.
Less yields more appreciation and a deeper sense of valuing “Stuff.” Less is just what was needed to drive home some salient points we parents otherwise try to teach our children with varying degrees of success.
I can safely say it is much harder to teach some of these lessons unless a child experiences the sting of disappointment, of going without. A little humility yields great things!
There were lessons this morning in climbing out of a pit, of garnering one’s creativity and ingenuity to generate solutions to get where you want to be, to realizing your dreams. To being the one to make your own dreams come true instead of relying upon others and the world to make it happen FOR you.
Actually, kind of like the very premises our country was founded upon!
Instead of a spirit of downtrodden weakness, a prevailing spirit of hope, faith and love.
And it didn’t come in the form of an expensive gift, it was not proud, it did not boast. There were no clanging cymbals.
My friends, God was right when He said the greatest of these is LOVE. This gift sat in at the back of the tree in a little silver, unmarked box, having gone mostly unnoticed until this morning.
The very youngest child patiently waited until all the gifts had been opened and he quietly padded over to his mother, the one in the room whose name was not on any of the gifts (because it’s all about the kids, right?) and he handed her the plain tin box and eagerly waited for her to open it.
His light blue eyes danced with anticipation as she carefully opened it and joyously received the greatest gift of all:
And Merry Christmas with love to you all!
May God bless you richly with His love…but don’t look for it at the 5 star resort in the top-floor suite. It can be found in a quiet valley of solitude, where things are simple and lowly, sweet and holy.
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